Blackberry Wine

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• In vino veritas

  Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris 419pp, Doubleday, £12.99 Being more of an alcohol buff than a confectionery lover, I was drawn to Blackberry Wine with much more instinctive enthusiasm than to its predecessor, the international bestseller Chocolat (s ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Blackberry Wine By Joanne Harris

  Bottling Magical WineAh, the summer novel, the literary vice that must hold serious publishers to their other virtues the rest of the year. Usually intensely ambitious, sweepingly sentimental, historically panoramic, or just down and dirty, summer no ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  Taste the Sweet Headiness

  One of the best way to get drunk, with quality alcohol it serves the mind.

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  iljlee said on Aug 2, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Although I have had the majority of Joanne Harris’s previous novels on my bookshelves for a number of years, so far I have only read Chocolat, Coastliners and Gentleman and Players. Now having just finished Blackberry Wine I intend to rectify this and catch up by reading the rest as soon as possible ... (continue)

  Although I have had the majority of Joanne Harris’s previous novels on my bookshelves for a number of years, so far I have only read Chocolat, Coastliners and Gentleman and Players. Now having just finished Blackberry Wine I intend to rectify this and catch up by reading the rest as soon as possible. So far she has proved to be for me a riveting storyteller, somehow making the locations and characters leap from the page. Her descriptions of food and wine so good that you feel you can smell and taste them. I finished this with a glass of wine sitting in the garden this evening and felt transported to Lansquenet, which was also the location for Chocolat. I believe also that some characters reappear in The Lollipop Shoes, receiving a copy of this recently as a gift is the inspiration to read the rest of her novels.
  In Blackberry Wine the narrator is a bottle of wine ‘Fleurie 1962’ unfolding the tale of Jay Mackintosh as a boy in 1975 and an adult in 1999, when he impulsively buys an old house in Lanssquenet, France.
  In two interlinking narratives we learn how the time he spent as a teenager in Kirby Monckton with his friend an old man Joe, has a subconscious effect on his 1999 choices.

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  Lindyloumac said on Sep 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
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• ISBN-10: 1840324996
• ISBN-13: 9781840324990
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Pub date: Mar 31, 2002
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Others and eBook

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